Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic Watch
In what I believe is its second year, the Roger Dubuis Hommage collection receives its most impressive piece to date, with the Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic watch, now close to the end of 2014. The original goal of the Hommage collection was to evoke the original designs that Roger Dubuis himself created for his eponymous brand back in the 1990s. Roger Dubuis later became unassociated with his brand, but a few years ago, the Richemont Group-owned Roger Dubuis brand decided to bring him back, and, along with his now "fatherly role" in the company, came the Hommage collection of watches.The Roger Dubuis Hommage Minute Repeater Tourbillon Automatic is just that, a vividly complicated mechanical movement that combines a tourbillon with a minute repeater and offers automatic winding. That latter element is quite interesting because the watch features "double micro-rotors." Wha...? That is right, rather than having a full rotor or one smaller micro-rotor, the Roge

Hands-On: With The Jaquet Droz Grande Heure GMT, With Two Hands And Two Timezones (Live Pics & P
This is a different kind of travel watch. Instead of the usual second hour hand or extra timezone disk augmenting a two or three hand configuration, Jaquet Droz has done away with all but two hands. Each tells the time on a single 24-hour scale, encouraging a more relaxed interpretation of the time. This is a travel watch designed for the gentleman on a leisurely vacation who only needs subtle reminders of about what time it is, not the man keeping a schedule to the second.With a watch that is this simple on the surface, the key is executing the details properly. And Jaquet Droz has done an admirable job here, making sure the small things are handled well. 2 OF 14 The Grande Heure GMT's asymmetrical hand geometry This starts with the shapes of the two hands. To ensure that both are legible even when they are close to one another, the broad bases have the extended tips offset asymmetrically. This means that when they are "overlapping," there is actually

Here's what I find strange about AP...
I'm now lucky enough to own my grail watch - the Royal Oak 15400 with blue dial, truly a fantastic piece which I can't stop looking at. However, although I have tremendous respect for AP, their history and what they stand for, there is no other AP watch that I really desire to own. The Offshore line especially I find ostentatious and often downright unpleasant in terms of design. It seems bizarre to me that the team of people that produce the elegant beauty of the RO can also produce some of those blingy Offshore monstrosities!Of course it's not quite as simple as that, I do love watches like the 15202, but I have a limited budget so it would make no sense to me to buy that when I already own the 15400. Similarly I admire the ROC, but I'm not a great chrono user so for me it really just reduces the desirable simplicity of the classic three hand RO.Rolex on the other hand is a brand I greatly admire, but don't really love (partly because of their often crass marketing, partly because of

Contemplating my next ...Can I pull it off?
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Power reserve problem
So i have a rolex explorer 2 and i tested the power reserve a while back and it was getting 46 plus hours now past two times i have tested it i was getting 34 to 37 hours i know it is supposed to get around 48 but since i only wear it on the weekends from time to time can that affect the power reserve?